Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot, 1879 Show more
Dylano | Essayfultwitter.comBlessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. — George Eliot, 1879 Show more
These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it’s because I have nothing to say.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
Modesty should be the virtue of those who possess no other.
Arthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
Tell a wise person or else keep silent
for those who do not understand
will mock it right away.
for those who do not understand
will mock it right away.
Poetic Outlaws • The Holy Longing
the effect of a subdued unchangeable sceptical smile, of all expressions the most tyrannous over a susceptible mind, and, when accompanied by adequate silence, likely to create the reputation of an invincible understanding, an infinite fund of humour – too dry to flow, and probably in a state of immovable crust, – and a critical judgment which, if
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